Ponce, Puerto Rico

city and municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico

highest peak in Puerto Rico

species of reptile

Plena is a genre of music and dance native to Puerto Rico. First played by Afro Puerto Ricans, the genre has African roots.

traditional musical style of Puerto Rico

mountain in Puerto Rico

Danza is a musical genre that originated in Ponce, a city in southern Puerto Rico. It is a popular turn-of-the-twentieth-century ballroom dance genre slightly similar to the waltz. Both the danza and its cousin the contradanza are sequence dances, performed to a pattern, usually of squares, to music that was instrumental. Neither the contradanza nor the danza were sung genres; this is a contrast to, for example, the habanera, which was a sung genre. There is some dispute as to whether the danza was in any sense a different dance from the contradanza, or whether it was just a simplification of

Puerto Rico's fourth highest peak at 1,205 meters (3,953 ft)